Ask for him the kingdom also - Bathsheba had not seen anything dangerous or suspicious in Adonijah’s request. Solomon, on the contrary, take…

And why do you ask?— In Solomon’s answer there is a certain bitterness, venting itself in irony, which seems to suggest the mingli…

And King Solomon answered and said to his mother
With as much gentleness and mildness as he could, but inwardly fire…

Solomon received Bathsheba with all the respect that was owing to a mother; but let no one be asked for what they ought not to grant. It ill become…